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Leadership and the new science : discovering order in a chaotic world /
"Shows how discoveries in quantum physics, biology, and chaos theory enable us to deal successfully with change and uncertainty in our organizations and our lives. Includes a new chapter on how the new sciences can help us understand and cope with some of the major social challenges of our time...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco, Calif. :
Berrett-Koehler,
2006.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : Maps to the real world
- Introduction : searching for a simpler way to lead organizations
- 1. Discovering an orderly world
- 2. Newtonian organizations in a quantum age
- 3. Space is not empty : invisible fields that shape behavior
- 4. The participative nature of the universe
- 5. Change, stability, and renewal : the paradoxes of self-organizing systems
- 6. The creative energy of the universe
- information
- 7. Chaos and the strange attractor of meaning
- 8. Change
- the capacity of life
- 9. The new scientific management
- 10. The real world
- Epilogue : Journeying to a new world
- To further explore the ideas and work of Margaret Wheatley
- The Berkana Institute
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author.